# Because the Night

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- Book: [Because the Night](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy/because-the-night) ([Because the Night.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy/because-the-night.md))
- Authors: [James Ellroy](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0009-529-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2005-10-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins,...